On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 04:27:58PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:> On 06/20/2012 04:23 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:> > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 04:10:18PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:> >> I'm wondering about the new format... it seems to potentially make it> >> harder to do the proper retaining of compatible CPU microcodes.> > > > .. and if you don't split the blob, you have all the ucode patches in> > one package. So are there any advantages in splitting the single blob?> > > > Not that I know of. IMO the driver can, and should, be the one doing> the pruning.